For we must share if we would keep that blessing from above Ceasing to give we cease to have such is the law of love.

Get up, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran. You kneel before no one. Least of all me.

I don’t regret anything I was before because I still am.I only regret not having loved you.Put your hands in mineAnd let’s be quiet, surrounded by life.

History is the collective consciousness of the then intellectuals and not just some numbers, time and events.

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs.

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

The best of life is the exercise of ingenuity-in design, in finance, in flying, in business.

If one day someone came up to me and was like, 'Look, you're never going to act again,' I don't know what I would do.

Once you get something, it's awfully tough to take it away.

Where we are is vital to who we are.

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.